Stumbling Out Soon: The Walking Dead Out In April

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Like that one ankle-biting zombie that can hear and you know is out there, but you don’t see until it’s molar deep into your favourite tendon (that’s the right for me), the Telltale Walking Dead game has just leapt out from the dark. Except: Aha! I was standing behind a window of invisible zombie proof glass, you stupid dead jerk. In this little scenario, the leap is the release month announcement, and the zombie proof glass is the time between them telling us “early April”, and the dead-head eventually breaking through the glass and consuming my flesh, that bit being the actual release.
I know very little about the game, partly because I’ve recoiled in horror from Telltale after Jurassic Park, but also because I prefer to shoot zombies: it’s an adventure, and you’re a new character in the world (and I hope he’s not nearly as stupid as everyone else in that damn comic), and it’ll include story-based consequences that require the player to make life and death decisions.

If you’d like to know more, Walking Dead The Game writer and ex-PC Gamer Editor Garry Whitta has more.

Really I don’t even know why they’re doing this crap. Their adventure games were fairly decent, I mean hell, I bought them. Stop making this shit and give me another puzzle agent or Sam and Max, PLEASE!

Huh, Gary Whitta is a lot less annoying when he isn’t around the Giantbomb team!

I’m going to wait for some video game footage before I decide if I should be excited for this or not. I love the walking dead franchise and didn’t hate their Jurassic Park game (though to elaborate on that, I got it cheap and went in with full knowledge of what that game was) so I guess either way I’ll be keeping an eye out for the eventual Steam sale?

Sam & Max at least had the creator on board. The Monkey Island games, well, they had the same problem especially the last of the main games had. Too many references, too many in-jokes, and the fourth wall can only be abused so much, before it gets boring to watch.
Quite ironic that the supposed continuation of the series took the turn that ruined almost every game in the genre released after its supposed death, a death the last MI game actually was the clearest sign of.
Which leads us back to the greatest problem that caused it all, which were in fact the clueless writers.

You are in a post-apocalyptic wasteland. To your north there are 4 SURVIVORS. To your south there are OPPORTUNE AMBUSH POINTS.
> Use TONGUE on SURVIVOR.
> Use BILE on SURVIVOR.
> Use TRACKSUIT on SURVIVOR
> Use ABANDONED CAR on SURVIVOR.
> Use EVIL GIGGLING on SURVIVOR.